German Romantic Poets

In this unique selection, popular giants of the Romantic movement - Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Heine - are joined by an array of poets who deserve a wider audience in English, including some formidably talented women.

German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song. The poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions of the nineteenth century. In this collection, we see German Romantic poe…